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“If these adjustments sound like too much of a hassle, then we need to consider a bigger question... If production companies can't provide a safe set for minors, are they qualified to hire children?”

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Book:Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything

Source: Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything

“From the smoothness of their skin, the length of their hemlines, the banality of their song lyrics and sitcom plots, these young stars embody an ideal of teenage innocence that adults are grateful to embrace. For as many seasons as the illusion can be maintained they remain, at least on screen, uncomplicated, untroubled good girls on the verge of, but never actually awakening to, their sexuality. There is a lot of money to be made and a lot of parental anxiety to be tapped by walking that line. There is also a lot of fury unleashed at those who step across it. When young stars pose semi-nude or get caught drinking they threaten the notion that our own daughter's coming of age could be effortless. Suddenly the role models, who perpetuated that myth, become the vector of our fears. The betrayal feels personal and cuts deep.”

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Book:Don't Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life

Source: Don't Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life

“Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.”

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Author:Roddy McDowall

“A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they’re trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that’s beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they’ve spent years just hanging out with adults and they don’t even have a sense of what it’s like to grow up with kids their own age.”

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Author:Alessandro Nivola

“Some people manage to make that transition from child actor to adult actor seamlessly. But I felt that if I spent my whole life on a film set without taking a few years to do something else, all I would ever know about was film sets.”

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Author:Anna Popplewell

“Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.”

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Author:Asia Argento

“I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - "I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!"”

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Author:Alexander Skarsgard

“My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.”

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Author:Mae Whitman

“My daughter's wanted to be an actress since she was six years old, but I didn't want her to go through the same experiences as I did as a child actor.”

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Author:Ricky Schroder

“I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.”

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Author:Mike Lookinland

“Unlike me, a lot of child actors are very short, which is why they work. So when they're 15 they can play 11 or when they're 18 they can play 14. They look young for so long, they have abilities a much younger kid wouldn't have.”

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Author:Cynthia Nixon

“I try to keep away from being bigheaded. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink the rest of their life. But there are several respected adult actors who were child actors that started very young. I'm going to try to model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster. Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.”

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Author:Haley Joel Osment

“If I had a child actor, I would wish for it to be in an Adam Sandler movie, because he just comes in and makes them so comfortable and is so brilliant with them and they all go home and they that they've got this special relationship.”

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Author:Kate Beckinsale

“When I was a child actor, I had the fear that I was going to be cast as the tree.”

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Author:Vin Diesel

“People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination kicked out of them by life experience and adulthood. So, they still are very much alive with that kind of magical thinking which enables an actor to believe they're in these circumstances and make them real to you.”

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Author:Nicolas Cage

“My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what its like. I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing Memory. I was terrible. Terrible.”

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Author:Emilia Clarke

“For a child actor, its a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.”

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Author:Jena Malone

“I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.”

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Author:Mara Wilson

“I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home.”

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Author:Charlie McDermott

“Parenthood has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.”

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Author:Jason Katims

“It's very hard to find a good child actor. There are a lot of child actors out there, especially in America, and they're cute kids, but most child actors appear on sitcoms where their main role is to be cute and make funny little remarks.”

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Author:George R. R. Martin

“The interesting thing with child actors is that kids are natural actors. They're wonderful actors, and most kids are acting all the time. They're imagining they're out in the yard playing. They're imagining that things happened, and they can get very vivid.”

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Author:Clint Eastwood

“I felt a gravitational pull to the material so that there's a certain element of acting that's not really necessary. I've really liked this in foreign movies before or I've observed others working with them and I've noticed that there's a method that goes on where the actors try and get the children, like the child actor, to interact with them in a real way. It seems like you're the adult trying to get the kid to fall in love with him.”

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Author:Brendan Fraser

“There's an infantilization that happens to actresses in general - musical theatre, straight theatre, television, film - we're spoken to like children. Actors are spoken to like children a lot of the time.”

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Author:Laura Benanti

“Some kids are fine, but often I don't like what I see in child actors. My kids are young and they are already showing an interest, so I have to try to discourage them, squash that in them.”

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Author:John Leguizamo

“After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.”

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Author:Lisa Jakub

“My memoir is being published by Beaufort Books and will be available fall of 2015. Its about my unusual life as a child actor and how I made the unpopular choice to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.”

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Author:Lisa Jakub

“I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.”

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Author:Ashley Johnson

“I had great parents, and they trained me well and instilled great values in me. They also taught me common sense about money and that I couldn't count on the good fortune of doing a show forever. Therefore, I never spent money I didn't have and didn't end up destitute like other child actors.”

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Author:Ken Osmond

“I had a hard time at school because I worked, so I was quite often out of school, which meant that I didn't make many friends. It can happen to child actors, because you're not in the school environment. And I did miss that school environment and being around people.”

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Author:Yasmin Paige

“There was not an industry for child actors. I never really made any money. It was all about fun for me.”

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Author:Michiel Huisman

“I played soccer, and I played in a band, and sometimes I was able to do a movie. And my school would cooperate. It was a very easy way to roll into what later became my profession. It's more innocent. When you're a child actor in the U.S., it's a different thing I think.”

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Author:Michiel Huisman

“I went on to host a kids' program from when I was around 10 until 15. In some ways I'm a child actor.”

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Author:Michiel Huisman

“I was a child actor, so when I started filming when I was five years old, it was a long time ago.”

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Author:Hiroyuki Sanada

“I don't know if child actors are necessarily more screwed up than most people.”

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Author:Rider Strong

“I enjoyed meeting Emma [Watson]. I have a soft spot in my heart for child actors growing up. I know how hard that is. Having gone through that experience myself, I have a lot of sensitivity to it. For lack of a better word, I just feel like I love these kids, and I want them all to grow up and love themselves, and not get caught up in the wrong things, and to learn all the different things this profession has to give, and to understand it.”

“A lot of child actors think they need to re-invent themselves, especially young women. Usually what they do is they adopt a sort of overt sexuality. It's fine if they want to do that, but a lot of times I think they feel obliged to do that, and that is something that I don't think anybody should feel obliged to express.”

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Author:Mara Wilson

“People view child actors the same way that girls treat their Barbie dolls.”

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Author:Mara Wilson

“There's a reason that girls cut off all their Barbie doll's hair and dye it and do things like that. I destroyed my Barbie dolls, and I know other girls did as well. And that's kind of the way they see kids movies and child actors in kids movies, as something that you've moved on from. It's babyish.”

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Author:Mara Wilson

“I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.”

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Author:Billy Eichner

“The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.”

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Author:Shia LaBeouf

“I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.”

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Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“If I can make a career for myself after Harry Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.”

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Author:Saoirse Ronan

“I have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I'm not running away from it or embarassed with anything I did.”

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Author:Ricky Schroder

“It's difficult being a child actor. I don't think everything beautiful has to be exploited. Some things can be beautiful and left beautiful.”

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Author:Ricky Schroder

“Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.”

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Author:Meryl Streep

“I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“Most aspiring child actors or child stars have a passion for it. But as easy as it is for me to say that I wouldn't put my kids in it, if I saw that they really, really wanted to do and they had the drive, then I would fully support it. As long as there's balance at home, then they could do whatever they wanted to do.”

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Author:Nick Cannon

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